He Will Answer

 

Featured image: Sowing the Seeds of Change

The concept of “change” appears throughout history: people change, words change, concepts change. I have been mainly interested in how concepts change. I give two examples below; this is not meant to be all-inclusive.

The Bible: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find.”

Judaism: “We will do and we will hear.”

The key principles reflected in these quotes are faithfulness, trust, patience, and belief.

Many poets have also written about expectations and beliefs:

“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.”
— Eileen Caddy

“Look and you will find it – what is unsought will go undetected.”
— Sophocles

“It is with my power either to serve God or not to serve Him.
Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world.
Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good,
which was in my power to create.”
— Leo Tolstoy

Personally, I think Tolstoy is right. The whole reason for bringing these ideas and concepts up here is “change.” Ideas, concepts, and words shift throughout history. Nothing is consistent; they change according to what different cultures—and the people within them—need in order to survive and thrive. The one thing that I have found that remains relatively stable is the concept of creativity.